The Roaring '80s by Adam Smith

The Roaring '80s by Adam Smith

In this New York Times bestseller, Pulitzer Prize-winning author George F. Will returns to baseball with more than seventy finely honed pieces about the sometimes recondite, sometimes frustrating, yet always passionately felt national pastime. Here are Will's eulogy for the late Curt Flood (Dred Scott in Spikes), Will on Ted Williams (When Ted Williams retired in 1960, a sportswriter said that Boston knew how Britain felt when it lost India. Indeed, Britain felt diminished, but also a bit relieved), and Will on his own baseball career (I was a very late draft choice of the Mittendorf Funeral Home Panthers. Our color was black). Here are subjects ranging from the author's 1977 purchase of a single share of stock in the Chicago Cubs to the memorable 1998 season, which is discussed in an all-new essay.
For fans of Men at Work and Will's other baseball writings, this book is as pleasurable as a well-executed bunt.

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ISBN 13	9780671447885
ISBN 10	0671447882
Title	The Roaring '80s
Author	Adam Smith
Condition	Unavailable
Publisher	Summit Books
Year published	1988-11-01
Number of pages	303
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